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Speaking for me, I think I could do without the sense of smell if I had to give one up. -
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i love seeing things, feeling things, I know people who do not have perfect hearing, and smell, smell is the basis of taste. without smell we wouldnt be able to taste the the chicken we eat.
so for me, it is taste. i can do without knowing what is bitter, what is sweet ect ect. -
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I forgot about that
~~~smell is the basis of taste~~~
now that you say that I remember hearing it in school. Dang, can I revote?...see my mind is going bad...LOL -
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lol, my sister pops this question up on me almost religiously. she's moderate to severly hearing impared so i guess she has a right to it.
it took me about an hour to come up with an answer but a lot of people say smell. mind you i could do without the sense of someone watching me...
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i kinda want to not smell, cuz then elevator rides with gassy people would be much more enjoyable... -
Kazrith might have a point
at least if we couldn't taste then people would not be so fat. Maybe we all would have better health since food would have lost flavor. I don't know. -
I cant smell much anyway
And the best I remember from car rides as a child, Im noyt missing much, I still hear the growling sound though
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this is a really small box to right in but... what has car rides as a child got to do with smell? and the growling???
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obviously you have never been in the car with the windows up ,in the mist of a very rank fart
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its not bad until you taste it. then you will be wishing for no sense of taste lol
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You can still taste without smell, just not as vidily and some stuff will taste different. What do you think tastebuds are? You ever have to drink something bad and you hold your nose? It helps but it's still there. Same if you, for some reason hold your nose as you eat something good. Or if you have a cold!
I'd have to give up smell before taste. I smell unpleasant things far more often than I taste them, and taste is more enjoyable for the bedroom too! -
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you can still taste because your mouth and nose a connected at the back of your throat. the smell travels up the back of your throat and into your nose.
your tastebuds just tell us what is sweat, sour, bitter ect. -
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That is taste. Everything else, the flavor more specifically, is affected by a mixture of taste, texture (touch), pain, and smell. Without smell things would "taste" very different, but we'd still be able to appreciate a pizza over a piece of broccoli.
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you will if it is really bitter
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personally anything with Matcha is bitter if you ask me
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well that stuff isnt bitter. course you could go that herbal way. i think willow bark tea is pretty bitter
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I always thought it was for fevers... ah well....
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although we think that sight would probably be the worst to give up, my years of contemplations have led me to the 'conviction' that hearing would in fact be the worst sense to give up. The exclusion of all 'epicity' would lead to detached and boredom induced insanity. Probably not that bad, but hey.
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Oh yes, taste and smell are linked. If you smell a certain aroma before tasting a certain food, the food will have a tang similar to the previously smelt object. A new invention actually allows you to, oddly enough, take the taste of a first class gourmet meal and apply it to your own derro meal.
Although we are speaking hypothetically, it is most likely for people to lose both taste and smell at the same time rather than just one. -
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thats cause taste is bitter, sour, sweet and all that fun stuff!
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This is a difficult question, I must say. I love to taste the strangest things, like I LOVE the taste of a blade of grass and stuff like that...I love the smell of flowers and my boyfriend (there is no relation between the scents of the two, honest! lol), I like to hear everything in the world (with the exception of metal-it does NOT turn me on in the least bit), I love to touch people and things...I'd tear my hair out in confusion if I were blind...Okay, I'm not voting, lol
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lol, well floral smelling boyfriends arent THAT bad.
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Well, I would say hearing, I am blind already, but hearing won't be that bad. Feeling, and touch is a big part for me, so yeah.
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my sister is hearing impared. words become hard to spell, you misunderstand everyone, and the little joys in life slowly fade.
hearing is important. moreso than my choice, taste. -
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Surely someone who has already lost one of their senses has a far better understanding of which of their remaining senses are the most important to them!
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one does not know what is most important until they loose it.
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I wonder if Mary would agree with that. Maybe losing her sight has helped her understand that one of her other senses are more important, touch for instance.
Mary ... what are you saying hun?
If given the option would you give up touch and welcome back your sight if you could swap it?
Totally hypothetical I know and I don't want to draw attention to you Mary or cause offence, that is not my intention.
If I have, tell me and I'll delete this then give myself a good slap lol
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I have to say, it is a hard choice. But I love flavor and thoroughly enjoy a well cooked dish. So, that eliminates taste and smell. I am a very tactile person and I work with my hands as an artist, so I can't imagine losing my sense of touch. Not to mention...there is nothing as heavenly as the touch of skin on skin. So, I can't give up touch. And hearing? Music is the pathway to my sould...both in and out. Hearing is also the means by which I make my living, so I can't give up my hearing. That pretty much leaves sight. And I feel I have enough memories to recall what things look like, and through my other senses still enjoy a beautiful sunset. I would just need someone there to describe it for me. -
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the sense of taste is limited to bitter, sweet, sour, hot, cold ect.
besides, you would be amazed at how not seeing really sucks
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I am aware of the limitations of taste buds
...and taste and smell being two of the strongest senses tied to memory i would simply want to keep them. not seeing is something i can see working with if i had to choose. because if you took my eye sight from me, i can recall sunlight streaming through the woods. i can recall the color of leaves on a fall day in new york. i can remember the colors of a sunset.
i am sure not seeing really sucks. i imagine not hearing could suck. not tasting. or smelling. or...not feeling.
prove to me that it sucks any more than any of the other choices. -
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your memory of the sunlight streaming through the woods would slowly fade to the point it would no longer exist.
taste, you could eat things you couldnt stand before. -
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The emotion doesn't fade....
The emotion evoked by the sunlight streaming through the woods does not fade. And having been born with and thus lost my sight, I do not believe my visual memories would fade just because my eyesight is gone. Blur yes, in the way that I can't really render a picture of my grandfather in my head, here 20 years after his death. It is more a memory of what he was than a picture. It's not the visual. It's the way he smelled, the way he hugged, the way he spoke gently, the way he told me stories, and yes the way things tasted. The air (my grandmother was a smoker then), the foods. I still think sight. -
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Forgive me if this coment appears sexist in anyway.
Memories for a man tend to be based on factual occurences, things they saw, that type of thing, whereas memories for a woman tend to be based on the emotional feelings present at that time.
Am I right or am I right
BTW maddy, I'm agreeing with ya
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I would say...
I don't know if that's scientific fact, and I have never been in a man's head.....but I would buy that idea.
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Mary Lillian Johnson
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I could live with deafness
while it would be a drag not to be able to listen to my Frank Zappa albums anymore, there would be some benefits to being deaf. i could ignore annoying people and have a good excuse for it. i wouldn't be woken up at 4 in the morning by train horns anymore. I would save a lot of money in phone bills, and i could converse with my friends without having to worry about being told to lower my voice. besides, sign language is pretty cool.
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